What is Your Unique Leadership Vocabulary?

Written by Ayesha Habeeb Omer

On the first page of my 2010 dairy, I wrote to myself, “I will have a Happy, Balanced, Peaceful, Adventurous, Prosperous, Creative, Powerful, Spiritual and Emotionally fit New Year!” When I read it, it changes my state immediately and I become hopeful and positive.

Words, words, words…. They play such a crucial role in shaping our lives and what we become as people, both professionally and personally. I believe that all successful people use powerful language patterns to motivate them to achieve their dreams on a continual basis.

Leadership Vocabulary of Famous Personalities

“We must become the change we want to see.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“It is kind of fun to do the impossible.”

Walt Disney

“Basically, our goal is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.”

Larry Page, Google

“To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities.”

Bruce Lee

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

Mother Teresa

“I am the greatest; I said that even before I knew I was.”

Mohammed Ali

In the corporate world, a manager plays a major role in building a team and getting results. Successful managers create a good vocabulary to motivate themselves and others. This vocabulary acts as an incantation and takes us forward.

My personal vocabulary is “Action creates energy and energy is everything”. I would love to hear and learn from your leadership vocab.

Jim Rohn said: Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. I think it was his paraphrase of “Give and it shall be given you, pressed down, shaken together and running over”.

Here are two personal favorites:
“Some play the game; others change the way the game is played.” – by Howard Putnam
“It is amazing what you can accomplish, if you do not care who gets the credit. – by Harry Truman

I have too many! Here are 2:
“It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.”~Sören Kierkegaard~

When the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change, you will change.

Thank you!
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